<a title="Designersblock at London Design Festival is the Best Spot for Innovative Quirky Eco-Designs" href="http://verydesignersblock.com/london2012/" target="_blank">Designersblock</a> is one of our favorite events because it's a great place to find plenty of quirky, innovative and bizarre new eco-friendly designs. The show is famous for setting up shop in neglected spaces as part of the <a title="Designersblock at London Design Festival is the Best Spot for Innovative Quirky Eco-Designs" href="http://www.londondesignfestival.com/" target="_blank">London Design Festival,</a> and this year the showroom was located in a storage facility at the South Bank. From wacky handmade machines to fantastic 3D-printed objects, click through to see our exclusive photos from the event.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

BreadedEscalope studio presented their low-tech, low-energy steam-bending machine and showed the public how it worked at this year's bustling Designersblock.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

As 50% of the world's computer waste ends up in four small villages in China, Kuan Ting Liao decided to raise the problematic issue by knitting all sorts of objects from found materials.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

One of the most weird and wonderful surprises we come across at this year's event was a non-profit arts organization that recycle old toys into bizarre new creations called Exploring Senses.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

DeGross studio were showing their sleek unique lamps (and plant pots) made from reused glass bottles found behind their London studio.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

Long-term collaborators with this great event, Hendzel+Hunt from MADE IN PECKHAM set themselves a 24 hr. Design Challenge making furniture and even a pinball from all sorts of recycled found objects.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

Designer Roey Hunt used to work as a tree surgeon until he decided to make these beautiful seats from 100 years old ill trees that were going to waste.

Walter Raes is a very skillful Belgian artist creating wearable art from repurposing trainers, supermarket bags and other mass-produced items.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

Matthew Plummer-Fernandez's cero-waste 3D printed bowl.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

Tunisia Made by Hend Krichen is a series of hand-made terracotta and copper vases that aims to stimulate the industry and celebrates traditional crafts that might disappear in little time.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

Just before we left, we cached up with one of Designersblock's founders, Rory Dodd -- here in a blue T-shirt --, who was very excited about this year's central location that welcomes the design scene but also surprises London's tourists and citizens.

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Quirky eco-designs at London Design festival 2012's Designersblock

Designersblock is one of our favorite events because it's a great place to find plenty of quirky, innovative and bizarre new eco-friendly designs. The show is famous for setting up shop in neglected spaces as part of the London Design Festival, and this year the showroom was located in a storage facility at the South Bank. From wacky handmade machines to fantastic 3D-printed objects, click through to see our exclusive photos from the event.